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Re: [RFC] repack vs re-clone

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 11, 2008, 19:50 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Marco Costalba wrote:
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> On Feb 11, 2008 7:45 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > So it happens to be just faster to re-clone the whole thing by 
> > > upstream.
> >
> > So what you are doing is passing the work, unnecessary work I'd say, 
> > to some poor server. Not nice.
> 
> To a poor net bandwidth I would say because cloning from zero just 
> downloads the packages.

Not exactly. Remember, if you did not "repack" via clone, the server would spend less cycles _and_ bandwidth on you. Namely zero.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Marco CostalbaFeb 10, 2008
  2. Nicolas PitreFeb 10, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiFeb 11, 2008
  4. Marco CostalbaFeb 11, 2008
  5. Johannes SchindelinFeb 11, 2008
  6. Jakub NarebskiFeb 11, 2008
  7. Nicolas PitreFeb 11, 2008
  8. Nicolas PitreFeb 11, 2008
  9. Jakub NarebskiFeb 11, 2008

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